Beijing Surfer

Jobs in China - students

2011-10-15T07:17:00.000-07:00

If you are one of those thinking of going to China and experience the time of your life earning a lots of money, just because you are white, you can easily forget about right now.

You can still have time of your life in China, but the job market is enormously competitive. Chinese youth, educated at western Universities is coming back and there is plenty of foreigners speaking fluent mandarin as well.

But, still there is a chance when you really want to work hard to find the way here. There is always a way. Like Chinese say, where is a will there is a way.

When you are still a student, you are the lucky one. Your opportunity cost of not working right now are at minimum, due to the stupid crisis and lowering wages. Moreover as a student you have higher chance to find an internship here in China. As a student or recent graduate you are cheaper,but you still have proper education background. It is easier to get you visas. And as as student there is more opportunities because companies do not have higher requirements and expectations.

For the first time I got to China as a fresh graduate. I was AIESEC member, which helped me a lot to find this internship a lot, actually in 2008, there was not many ways to find a proper internship in other ways. AIESEC is an independent organization run by students for students. You can learn more on their website or at your University. So, the one way for students might be AIESEC. You have chance to choose from Managerial, Educational, Technological or Development internship. Everything depends on you and your background.

The other way I would recommend is directly contacting companies here in China. No matter from which country you are, I would start looking for companies from your country or region. I believe there are companies located from all around the world. I already know few successful stories of students who did it this way.

The third way might be looking for Chinese companies going Global. There is a lot of them. Just pick an industry. From IT - Lenovo, Technology - Huawei, Haier, and other manufactures. Green energy companies are trending a lot with some vacancies all the time. I do not tend to do you homework for you, just give you an opinion. Use google and search for companies. I would start with leaders in the industry you want to work.

When you were lazy in your studies, and never bothered to finish a school with a real degree, or you are a social science student and by it I mean teacher wannabe you can easily get to China as English teacher.
You can earn from 100 CNY( 12EUR) to 250CNY per hour by teaching English. Depends on you proficiency. Teaching English is also a good part time job if you are planning to cover your costs here in Chine while studying Chinese.
There is one other way, in case you don not speak proper English and Chinese, you can find companies which might employ you for language testing, where you are going to use your mother tongue. For example try to contact company called Vance Info (traded at NYSE).

Recommendation:
- everything takes a while because of bureaucracy
- do not be a stupid foreigner and have high expectation, there are better Chinese always applying for the same
- during an interview show passion and your interest why you want to come to China.
- I had 3 or 4 rounds of interviews, it is not easy
- some level of Chinese is expected now ( for business positions)
- If you have contact in China, use them. NETWORKING is important.
- It is good to have an overview of what is going on in China now - read some Chinese papers - China Daily, Global Times
- for English teaching job in Beijing refer to The Beijinger

Inflation in China might save Europe

2011-09-28T08:13:00.000-07:00

What would you do with 3.2 trillion USD in foreign exchange reserves? Sounds good right, but it is far above ideal situation.

Ideal level should be around 20 percent of GDP, which today represents 1 trillion USD.

The situation at the moment threatens the stability in China.

China recently approached European markets with offer for buying bonds. I have read many explanations in news, blogs etc. Every author mentioned diversification of the foreign exchange reserves, which are mostly composed of USD. Diversification by buying EU bonds. By diversification of portfolio one can lower the risk. I agree with these authors, there is nothing wrong with this point of view, still missing the fundamental part though.

There is one more approach, which could be classified somewhere withing political strategies. The main point here is that China by buying EU bond are just following its own goal and that is strong bargaining power in the future. We can observe lots of situations where China is asking for more open EU market for investments of Chinese companies, technology investments etc. I am not saying, China might posses the power to influence "blackmail" but I don't see this as the main reason for recent actions.

My approach is based on two main premises:

1. The main orientation of China policy is to secure so called Social Harmony (和谐社会) within the nation.

2.Trade surplus is accompanied with rising foreign exchange reserves, then followed by home country's currency appreciation which at the end causes inflation.

China has been pro-export oriented economy for many years now. Sometimes called the manufacture of the world. The country was growing immensely, even when whole world was stuck in crisis, the growth in China was 8pc per year. The obvious result was piled amount of dollars and rising inflation in recent months.

The word inflation means rising level of in a basket of goods and services. Food, fruit, almost everything suddenly has became more expensive and I am not mentioning the real estate prices which are highly exaggerated.

Common people have been pushed to cut down their expenses. Eating less, consuming less mean that you are less happy. This can easily cause social unrest. Which is NOT in accordance with the main policy-Social Harmony, moreover it may threaten the stability of the country.

The government realized that and we can see the result of understanding of this precarious inflationary situation in the 12th 5-year plan.

In this plan, China is going to: try- lower the growth, increase home consumption, have greener production, higher expenditures on innovation and for me the most important Restructure the Economy.

Here you can download and read more about the 12th 5-year plan.

Restructuring the economy by closing non efficiently operating factories, closing down labor intensive industries and heading to more innovative industries.

What we might see in next couple of years? Well, I believe there is going to be a lot mergers or acquisitions by Chinese companies. Many of them already reached the top in the Chinese market, have surplus of capital and looking for the next step abroad. Europe might be the next obvious step. We can see lot of European companies, with strong R&D, patents, ideas, customer base but they lack of capital.
Chinese companies are encouraged to invest abroad, Chinese government buying "helping" Europe to solve the debt problem, is it because they want and have another master plan to rule the world, or do they need to do it?

Crash Test of Greed a.k.a. Financial Crisis for Beginners

2011-09-04T05:53:00.000-07:00

Thisis going to be a brief summary of what is called financial crisis.I am going to try to write it as simple as possible for everyone tounderstand it.

WhenI was thinking how to start this article I had begun writing down thehistorical events that lead to what are we experiencing now. In recent news youcan hear that it even can be double-dip recession. The definition of recessionis when gross domestic product (GDP) growth slides back tonegative after two quarters of positive growth.

It all started with Dot-com bubble followed by theterrorist attacks in NYC. 2000/01

For those who do not know about Dot-com bubble, here Ipost a part of an article about it.

Thisbubble was triggered by emergence of the World Wide Web and its potent yeteasy-to-use web browser Mosaic. Vendors and pundits alike rhapsodizedhow the Web would transform business overnight, creating the "NewEconomy" where everything happened in "real-time," and commercemoved at the speed of electrons. Amazon.com sprung up and grew quickly sellingbooks online, and every other industry became afraid of being"Amazoned" by a start up. The rush was on to build network capacityand huge server farms, and lots of money was invested. In the end, the Web hasbecome a successful business model, but it has happened more at the rate of thehistorical technology trend (11% growth per year), not at the rate of thebubble trend. As you can see from the Dot.com bubble diagram below, bubbles areS-curves that collapse very quickly because of the realization/panic that thevalue being created is "fictitious," often falling in about a thirdof the time they took to rise.

After thesetwo events which I mentioned above, Alan Greenspan who served as Chairman ofFederal reserve of the US (FED) initiated a series of interest cuts that brought downthe short term interest rate to 1%.Bringing down the interest rate supposes to stimulate economy, demand bypouring money to the market. This is actually a good thing to do, but hismistake was that he kept the interest rate low for too long period.

This caused outburst of capital. No one was saving,everyone was borrowing. Investors had lot of cheap and easy money, they werelooking for higher interest rate. Higher interest rate comes along with higherrisk.

Everyone was greedy and wanted to earn more and morein this situation. Banks started providing mortgages to people that would neverever before had a chance for a mortgage (sub-prime mortgages). Remember what Imentioned, higher interest rate comes with higher risk, higher interest ratemeans higher yield for banks. Moreover these banks realized that they caninsure these mortgages through a process that is called securitization. Simplyas soon as the bank provided mortgage, the bank sold it to an investor. So,here is a situation a bank can provide a high risk mortgage to a subprimelender, the bank can sell the mortgage to another investor and earn money rightaway without any burden in the form of risk. This caused housing bubble, andmore and more mortgages were provided, more houses bought.

As I mentioned No one was saving, everyone wasborrowing and banks did not have enough cash from savings to borrow. They startedselling prime mortgages later subprime mortgages.

Next, investment banks were buying these mortgageswith all other loans and they were selling them to other investors to earn moneyas well. They created complex derivatives called CDO – collateral debtobligation. But since investors wantedto buy save, low risk mortgages, investment banks combined all the primemortgages with subprime mortgages and triple A investment rating was given themby rating agencies – most of the time. This means very low risk. Now, when homelenders paid mortgages they did not pay it to the local bank, lender but to theinvestor. Later on Investment banks realized that it might a worthwhile idea toinsure these CDO, they could do this through an instrument called creditdefault swaps.

In this system no one really cares everyone wasearning a lots of money, everyone expected the market to continue booming.Investment banks were borrowing more leverage to earn more money. Investmentbanks at 2007, 2008 were over leveraged.

Leverage is similar to mortgage, let’s assume that youwant to buy a house. Its price is 100, you have 10 so you borrow 90. In boomingmarket you expect the price raise. Later you can sell the house for 110. Youcan return 90 to bank and you earned 20 which is double of your investingamount, or 100% return on investment.

Note: Lehman Brothers was the leading underwriter ofsubprime loans.

2006 Interest rate started growing, later the housingbubble burst.

Financial crisis started by fear when housing bubble burst, investors fearedthat there is lot of subprime loans on the market. The first on the list wasBear Stearns, market had no confidence in Bear Stearns. Investors thought thatthey do not have enough cash. Their stock fell rapidly. Had to be rescued byhelp of US government and was bought by JP Morgan Chase.

Next investment bank, which was overleveraged and hadlot of toxic assets (subprime loans) was Lehman brothers. There was no dealleft for Lehman and it was signal for financial markets that US government isnot there to save them from their mistakes.

The outcome was different from anticipated. Capitalmarkets were frozen for a week. No one wanted to lend money to other bank orcompany. Investors did not trust investment banks and took money away. Evencompanies as GE (healthy company) had troubles to borrow cash for dailyoperations. US government had to step up and pour liquidity to investment banksto restore the confidence on markets. US gov. had to nationalize two biggestmortgage lenders Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae as well helped troubled insurance companyAIG.

Lot of companies and little borrowers bankrupt becauseof lack of capital. People lost their houses, because of high interest rate andpayments that could not they pay. Unemployment rate skyrocketed and till nowthe confidence on the markets was not restored. Even pouring and printing moneyis not helping in restoring domestic demand in US and for the first time in 70years, US economy did not created any jobs for the last month.

For simplicity and visualization you can take a look at these two infographics from Jonathan Jarvis.

PART 1.

PART 2.

or watch a video

An opportunity called China

2011-06-19T06:10:00.001-07:00

I wrote this as an class review and I decided to share it here with you. It's my humble and very short opinion.

When we think of China and its potential we cannot be biased by the development in the country in the last two centuries. China or the Middle Kingdom was here and unified already two hundred years BC. Chinese invented gunpowder, printing, papermaking and compass. Their ships and navigation were much better comparing to all ships in Columbus era. Xi’an was once the world’s largest city.

Right now China is characterized as the manufacturer of the world with cheap labor. The Chinese market is in the process of transition from planned economy to so called socialist market economy. The market is transforming from closed market to open market.

For many people from developed countries, China represents the country of evil. The country with Communist government, the country with enormous pollution, poor property rights and the country of counterfeited products. Yes, all these and many other problems as recent real-estate bubble, inflation might be true. But when we say A we have to add B too.

China’s economy grew seven times as fast as American in the last decade. China’s demand for cement represents more than 50% of global demand. Similar situation is with iron ore, steel and pigs. Chinese government expenditures on army represent enormous 91.5 billion dollars per year and growing every year. Any American investor or army contractor should be considering these facts, because it might be a potential opportunity. I am aware of political questions as exporting high-tech army material to China might be, but where a problem is, there is always a solution. Therefore I still believe it is an opportunity.

High growth has already left a huge mark on the land and people living around the production centers. Good land is being depleted by chemical saturation forests are being turned to desert, many of China's main rivers and lakes are considered dangerously polluted. The country is also drying up, less and less rainfalls cause droughts. The air in many cities is unbearable due to pollution; because the main source of China’s electric power is represented by coal power plants. Chinese government made commitments to encourage alternative forms of energy, to battle desertification and the poisoning of rivers, to create a new generation of water treatment facifities. As we talked in the class, one of the alternative energy companies (Goldwind) which understood this potential is already expanding to US market. I believe there is a group of American companies experienced in wastewater collection, and wastewater treatment, irrigation technologies etc. They have the technology capabilities and experience to deal with these problems. Even Chinese government admitted that there is lot of ecological problems.

Therefore, once again I have to mention that a risk is always accompanied by the opportunity. Even in Chinese, the word "crisis – weiji" is explained as a combination of two characters. The first signifies "risk." The second stands for "opportunity."

Recently Chinese government made concrete commitments. Beijing promised to open government procurement to foreign companies. It also made moves towards opening its financial sector, agreeing to allow foreign firms to sell mutual funds and auto insurance, and underwrite corporate bonds, etc. China becomes more and more open. It has own problems in many areas and industries, but with its openness it creates an opportunity which might not come again. Like in every other developing country also in China all that glitters is not gold. Therefore everyone should do the homework, due diligence before investing or entering the market.

10 interesting facts

2011-06-05T05:11:00.000-07:00

China's GDP is only 9.4% of the global economy with its population 19% of the world population.

Now, bear this on your mind and look at the data below.

1. Cement demand represents 53.2% of global demand, followed by

Iron ore = 47.7%
Coal = 46.9%
Pigs = 46.4%
Steel = 45.4%
Lead = 44.6%
Zinc = 41.3%
Aluminum = 40.6%
Copper = 38.9%
Eggs = 37.2%
Nickel = 36.3%

2. China's economy grew 7 times as fast as America's over the past decade (316% growth vs. 43%).

3. 85 percent of artificial Christmas trees are made in China. So are 80 percent of toys.

4. If Beijing resident spent his entire yearly income on housing, the average resident could buy 10 square feet of residential property.

Housing prices in Beijing have now broken all records, rising by 40% since 2007. A square meter of residential property in the capital now costs an average of 26,000 yuan (US$3,800), but the average per capita monthly income is only 2,000 yuan.

5. Chinese consume 50,000 cigarettes every second

6. American fastest train goes less than half as fast as the new train between Shanghai and Beijing.

From a standing start, the Chinese-built train reached a top speed of 302 mph in 22 minutes. When opened next year, the high-speed track will cut travel time between the two cities from ten hours to four hours.The train set a record for unmodified conventional rail. The fastest train is a Chinese mag-lev train, which can hit 311 mph.

7. Registered to marry: 12,050,000 couples - Registered to divorce: 1,961,000 couples.

8. China's enormous Gobi desert is the size of Peru and expanding 1,400 square miles per year due to water source depletion, over-foresting and over-grazing.

9. By 2025, China will build enough skyscrapers to fill 10 New York-sized cities.
By 2025, 40 billion square meters of floor space will be built in five million buildings. Of these 50,000 could be skyscrapers.

10. Ten little facts:

Ketchup originated in China as a pickled fish sauce called ke-tsiap.

Trouble in China is symbolized by 2 women living together under 1 roof

Chopsticks originated from China approximately 4,000 years ago.

Mandarin Chinese is the world’s most spoken language with over 870 million speakers.

34 children are born every minute in China

All Disney characters were banned for 40 years in China

Ice cream was invented in China around 2000BC when the Chinese packed a soft milk and rice mixture in the snow.

About 700 000 engineers graduate annually from schools in China

China has only about 200 different family names

There are about 40000 characters in Chinese language; An Adult is only expected to know 5000 of them

To Eat or Not To Eat

2011-05-05T05:11:00.000-07:00

Recently Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao said:
"A country will never grow into a mighty respected nation without the improvement of its ethical standards and without the power of morality."
He reacted on the food safety scandals, which occurred around China in recent months.
He continued,"dishonesty and moral degradation became a very serious problem in the country".
Well, nothing left to add, I just need to agree with him.

During the last few weeks I was warned by my friends about the food safety. I heard it almost every day. You should not buy this pork baozi (stuffed bun) because of the the toxic pork on the market. Don't buy milk the other day and don't buy chicken sausage later. Should I stay on water and bread only? No, I really didn't care much, but I tried to avoid consuming all of those to minimum.

I am going to provide you with actual facts about the situation here. All my info is from Xinhua news agency and Beijing's review magazine.

MELAMINE-TAINTED MILK
In July 2008, 16 infants in Gangsu province who had been fed by milk powder produced by Sanlu Group were diagnosed with kidney stones. By November 2008, the number of victims had exceeded 300,000, with six infants dying from damage to their kidneys caused by melamine. Melamine is an organic compound that can increase the protein content of milk. Milk produced by Sanlu Group contained 2,563mg of melamine per kg, while only 15mg is allowed.
I heard that many families go to Hong Kong and by the milk powder there, because they are afraid to buy it in mainland.

TOXIC FEED ADDITIVES
The Chinese largest producer of meat and several other companies were found to have used pigs with toxic Clenbuterol. Clebuterol is a chemical, that prevent pigs from gaining, accumulating fat. It can build up in pigs flash and it is poisonous to humans. Shanghui Group offered local farmers higher price for pigs fed with the illegal additive.

GUTTER OIL
It is usually made from discarded kitchen waste that has been refined. Although it looks clean, it actually contains toxic substances, including aflatoxin, which can cause cancer.

DYED STEAMED BUNS
In April, Shanghai Shenglu Food Co.Ltd was revealed to produce dyed steamed buns with chemicals such as synthetic lemon yellow dye to make wheat buns look like corn flour buns and black rice buns. They also re-labeled buns made two days earlier with new production date. They also added buns over expiration date and mixed them with new ones. Those buns were sold in supermarkets and grocery stores in Shanghai.

If I find more examples I will add them here. I believe I will write about more cheering topic next time. Probably about guanxi and its importance in business, Chinese drinking culture or explosion of Tsingdao beer.

Google's No Evil troubles in Paradise

2011-04-04T10:54:00.000-07:00

Believe or not, we live in the world where Google rules the world, at least it rules mine. Well, let's be honest here, I got two rulers, the second one is enjoying the time in far far France.

I use gmail for every communication. It is also heavily connected to google groups, google documents, picassa and I also use google's Chrome. Just make it clear, this is not Google's promotion, at least not paid one.
I just like it, I tried variety of other services and I ended up with G, not Y or IE, Hotmail...

The thing is, I am in Beijing and like I cannot enjoy nice time with my girl because she is not here. For the "same" reason I cannot enjoy Google's services.

The fight between Google ( Don't be evil) and China ( Chinese government) started last year, when Google was attacked by hackers. G's answer was moving out their operations, domain to Hong Kong. The accessibility of it's services started declining.

The tension between Google, their customers and users on one side and Chinese government on the other side increased with a couple of North African revolutions. The government was afraid of possibility that even a small and inspired revolutionary movement in China might be formed. Total blockage was applied. Google, Gmail stand together with also previous Facebook, Flickr, Twitter and other social networks blocked, this time not accessible even through Proxy servers. The most used WiTopia proxy was not working anymore.
"This month WiTopia, one of the most popular VPNs, asked users to report problems via email rather than its live support service because of an "extraordinary volume [of issues] from China shenanigans". The architect of the online censorship system had previously said it was"lagging behind" in a battle against VPNs and that further tightening was needed."
"It's grim. The reality is they can shut off all access if they want to," said Bill Bishop, a Beijing-based internet specialist.

In the reality the picture below is the result of not using Proxy servers. It is today's screenshot, when I tried to access my account.

I am still lucky that my two proxy options work just fine.

According to last week news, Google accuses China of interfering with the gmail system.

"Relating to Google there is no issue on our side. We have checked extensively. This is a government blockage carefully designed to look like the problem is with Gmail," said a Google spokesman

And if you see my screenshot it looks like an internal problem of google's servers. But, then you turn on the proxy and Voilà!! 42 unread messages.

With internet here in China for Chinese government it is like a story of a shy boy. He likes the girl, would like to spend time with her, but is not going to talk to her because is afraid.

They would like to use all the information they can gather from internet, but they are also so afraid of letting the internet to be free.

Like wikipedia was blocked two, three years ago. Now it is kind of accessible. I hope we might see more of this "online freedom" in the future of China.

Someone old, grumpy with common preference of red color and with the power to change a thing, should realize that we DO NOT live in the 20th century anymore and that pigeons are not the fastest way of delivering a love letter.

Further readings:
Guardian UK
Guardian UK 2
NY Times
Google news

Panic at the Disco

2011-03-26T01:55:00.000-07:00

Few weeks ago the huge well-known earthquake hit the Japan and followed by 13m high Tsunami. Tsunami caused a major damage to Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant. Some of the radiation spread to the environment.

What was the impact here in China. Someone spread the rumor that the radiation will hit the mainland and ocean. There are two statements mentioned in the rumor. First, the sea produced salt would be contaminated (which means buy salt now, because later it will not be available or will be expensive). The second, and the most important fact mentioned was that the salt will protect you against the radiation.
Oh, hold on a second here. If I had received it, I wouldn't really care and delete it right away. It simply sounds too funny to believe that salt can help me survive any radiation impact. Moreover, I made a small research. I found out that most of the salt in China is produced from salt mines, therefore I had no worries about the sea water made salt.

But take a look what happened here in China. Majority of people believed to a message(sms, email) and started buying salt. On the other day, the salt probably made the sales record. In one day, the amount of sold salt was equivalent of the 24 days sales of salt.
The salt price was kicked beyond the atmosphere and subsequently the price literally kicked a government officer to his butt or else. The government is trying to curb the rising inflation and this rumor was not very helpful.
So the government tried to explain that there is nothing to be afraid of and that people should stop buying salt under the panic opinion. This was not very helpful, the price and sales were still rising. No one simply believed the government. It is like when you lie thousand times after a while everyone everyone knows and expect you to lie all over again. When you are actually telling the truth for the first time no one believes you a word from your mouth again and perceive it as a lie. Instead people believed the rumor.

Result, the government set the maximum price for salt, hunt down the creators of the message and everyone is happy with the salt price low again.

But if you think about the case more you might see a different problem. I am not going to talk about the politics. But, the people, how could they believed the message which is obvious nonsense. Just the fact that the salt can protect you against radiation, radiation poisoning is laughable. The only thing that can protect me is a super thick concrete shelter and lead apron.
Why those people believed it. Is it matter of education? I believe it is. I believe this example shows us how the Chinese system works, but also shows us the lack of educated people in the mainland. Or do they think that they are educated.. then is it the matter of reasoning?
Do not want to draw any conclusion here since I am far from being expert on education.

Chinese Market

2011-03-20T22:27:00.000-07:00

I have found some time to write a word or two before my afternoon classes.
Maybe it is a good idea to give you a short introduction into the fundamentals of the Chinese market.

The Chinese market is in the process of transition from Planned Economy to so called Socialist Market Economy. The market is transforming from closed market to open market. Therefore we can call it TRANSFORMING market and it differs from various western mature markets.

Chinese market can be described as:
DIFFERENT - regional, industrial, system and generation differences.
ENORMOUS - vast territories, great prospects, population growth, income growth
CHANGING - changing policies, fast development and daily changes
CHAOTIC - legal and economical system = chaotic, lack of business integrity, counterfeiting
FULL OF UNREST - short-term activities,excessive competition

Talking about Chinese market, we cannot forget to mention the huge difference between rural areas and urban areas. The increasing income gap between these areas is one of the biggest problems in China.
For example, the disposable income of urban residents in 2006 was almost 12,000 RMB per capita, while the net income of rural resident was only 3,587 RMB.

One of the main problems for foreign companies is to define, describe the market. According to EUI, 44 percent of multinational companies describe China as a single market, 6 percent as two markets, 11 percent as three market but look at 39 percent of companies believe that there are more then four markets.

Beijing Sunset, Nick Fawbert -Flickr

The most important thing is to understand the market, to analyze the market and find the major opportunities.
One example for all:
In the year 1979 Chinese government established "one child" policy. Many businessmen would see this as a thread not an opportunity. Would you think that this could be a good market for a toy company.
Hasbro and Mattel thought so. Even there is less kinds, they are like a small emperors in their families. All the focus of whole family is on the KID. These American companies targeted parents, grandparents, uncles and aunts of those single kinds and made a huge profit from this marketing approach.

During my year of management traineeship in Chinese company I met dozens of Chinese managers and seniors, all of them did not understand why all the foreign companies that are trying to establish themselves in China are based in Shanghai. They told me, all the important government is here, better scholars are here(Beijing). Do those foreigners want to stay in more European city as Shanghai is.
I would understand financial companies sitting there, because of the stock market. But others? Most of future Chinese best companies moving Headquarters to Beijing, why foreign companies are based in Shanghai?

Beijing CBD East Expansion

Architect: Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP

Location: Beijing, China

Back in Beijing

2011-03-20T03:49:00.000-07:00

I am two years older, but still the same . What is new then? I am back to Beijing.

Not like for the first time, when I was lost, could not navigate myself through the streets of the capital.

I came back, new structures, more people but the same Beijing.

I am student at the Business school,University of International Business and Economics pursuing MBA.

Trying to move from the marketing background I gained during my previous studies to more financial associated fields. We will see what the future has prepared for me.

I decided to write this blog all over again as I saw my beautiful girl trying to knock on the doors of the blogosphere too. While this was the first impulse, I realized later that it might be a good platform to summarize my thoughts on China or a place where I can write down new fact and figures about Chinese economy.

I live in fully Chinese environment, surrounded by Chinese and foreign scholars. I think it is a good incubator for new ideas and the place where I can get all the new info about China. I am going to share it with you.

Let's start. Today I will be very brief. Just would like to mention two new rules in Beijing.

1.People can not buy a new car - or can but cannot use it, without winning the permission to obtain new plate in the lottery.

2. Local government decided to curb the inflation and real estate bubble by a new law. One family can have only 2 houses - according to my teacher, 3 houses according to my Chinese friend. Have to find out which one is the correct one. But still, don't you think it is weird? The renting price sky rocketed in Beijing in few last months due to this rule.

I got to go now, hot jiaozi - dumplings waiting for me.
Later the English Premier League match Sunderland -Liverpool is on.

Velky cinsky firewall

2009-06-10T20:13:00.000-07:00

Po tom co som Vam tu oznamil, ze vsetko je blokovane len dodam ziadna zmena.
Ale dlho som nic poriadne o zivote v Cine nenapisal. Tak sup sem par slov.
Bohuzial, ziadne obrazky a nic ine ako slova sem vlozit nemozem, lebo moj aktualny proxy server to neumoznuje.

Je tu jenda moznost aby cely internet fungoval ako ma, ale je to za 40$ na rok http://www.witopia.net/welcome.php
S mojim super stazistickym platom a ziadnym casom na zvys radsej odignorujem youtube. Esteze mi torrenty ako tak idu. Takze som neni ani moc pozadu co sa tyka filmovej databazy.
AJ ked, mozem mat jedno dvd za 5 Kuai, teda 50 Eur centov. A cela kolekcia OC California, Gossip girl, How I met your mother na 4 DVD za 2 EUR. No nekup to!!

Par poslednych dni som bol nastvany asi na kazdeho cinana a celu cinu. Kazda malickost mi vadila, ale vcera sa to trochu zmenilo. Nasiel som super park, hned vedla je maly katolicky kostolik a nie je tam vela ludi, a co je podstatne cinania tam skate-uju. Som si s muzickou hodinku posedel a oddychol. Nabuduce beriem fotak a skate tenisky!!

Akurat som si uvedomil, ze uz som v Pekingu 7 mesiacov, wow, ale to ide..co bude dalej nik nevie..lebo sa to vsetko meni, len to lokalne pocasie je stale to iste...horuce. Vazne neviem ako niekto mohol v tomto na umretie ovzdusi a teplote bezat marathon na Olympiade... Ja som si minuly tyzden konecne zahratl futbal a po hodine som sa musel rozdychavat a vypil som hned liter vody.
Po 7 meisacoch tu uz poznam skoro cele mesto, aj ked pravda je ze moc som este v zapadnej casti nebol, ale ani tam moc toho nie je asi...iba jeden velky zabavny park..cez leto musim vyskusat.

Za toto obdobie som uz presiel viac miest ako miestny moji kolegovia.
Zhrnutie: Shanghai, Qingdao, Chengde, Beidaihe, Nandaihe a o tyzden idem skakat bungee do hor v ShiDu. A ak sa vsetko podari, ja budem zdravy a ostanu mi peniaze. V auguste mi hrozi nieco neuveritelne. 12 dnovy vylet do Tibetu so zakoncenim v Zakladnom tabore Everest< Zhumulangma >. Kvoli tomuto vyletu teraz vstavam rano pre 6 a zacinam pomaly behat aby som prinavratil stratenu kondicku. Lebo tam vazne hrozi choroba z prevysenia, teda z vysokej nadmorskej vysky.

Pravdepodobne som nespomynal v obsiahlejsom prispevku, ale bol som v Chengde, co bola letna rezidencia cisarov. Male mestecko obklopene horami, cerstvy vzdych, kopia budhistickeho chramu z Lhasy a velmi dobre jedlo apivo.
Obrazky: http://picasaweb.google.com/mark.bulak/Chengde#

Potom som bol Beidaihe a Nandaihe - je to nieco ako cinska Malorca, kedze ostrov Hainan je uz miestny Hawai.
Male mestecka s nadhernymi a cistymi plazami a studenym morom...ale aj tak sme tam vliezli a konecne plavali ...
Mesta su plne ruskych alebo rusky hovoriacich turistov, aj napisy v mestach su po cinsky a potom po rusky. Ked sme si vypytali menu v anglictine tak nam dali ruske:>
Obrazky budu neskor, lebo este nemam vsetky pokope..

Snad ma nezatvoria za obchadzanie blokady...

Blocked

2009-06-03T22:55:00.000-07:00

Bohuzial nemozem, nic pisat na blog.
BLOG a Blogger, youtube, twiter a mozno coskoro aj Facebook, su pekne blokovane. Kym nenajdem spolahlivy pristup k proxy serveru, ktory mi nebude kradnut hesla, tak sa cez to pripojim a budem pokracovat. Alebo pockam kym sa tu zmenia pomery a prestanu blokovat vsetko kde sa clovek moze vyjadrit.

Qingdao

2009-04-20T22:19:00.000-07:00

Je to nejaky ten tyzden co som sa vratil z mensieho vyletu z mesta Qingdao.

Je to pristavne mestecko s len nejakym milionom obyvatelov a super plazami, teda s tym, ze sa bavime o severe a nie o juhu Ciny.

Nebolo to nejak zvlast vynimocne, ale na oddych a zmenu ovzdusia to na 3 dni postacilo. Byval som 20 metrov od oceanu a par minut chodze do centra a do miestneho pivovaru. Qingdao je zname svojim pivo.

Svoju prehliadku som zacal v pivovare, a tak sme aj cely den skoncili. S dalsim stazistom z Kanady, sme sa rozhodli ze budeme cely den testovat miestne pivo a rozsirovat slovnu zasobu cinstiny. Tak aj bolo.. zastavili sme sa asi v 10 miestnych restauraciach, skusali miestne pochutiny a vzdy zapili velkou lacnou flasou piva. Cely den pekne vonku pieklo tak som konecne chytil aj nejaku tu farbu.

Mestecko to je pekne len v okoli plaze, lebo to kedysi byval Nemcky pristav, takze Nemecka architektura a europske domceky na plazi.no ako doma som sa citil, ale za kopcom..uz hroza..hnusne cinske panelaky a fabriky a smog.

Kazde rano na plazi sme mali debatu ci to nad oceanom je hmla, opar, smog alebo kysla hmla:> nieco ako jemny kysly dazdik.

Na koniec vyletu sme spravili miestnym divadielko, cakanie na vlak sme si skratili mensim predstavenim bojoveho umenia, alebo ako sa poranit s tupym mecom :>

A aby som nezabudol, ak nahodou nebudem najblizsich 7 mesiacov pisat, odpisovat, tak zijem ale pracujem. Vsade sa siri, ze je financna kriza, ale ja mam uz 3 joby a vsetky tri budem robit naraz:> tak som cely "prestastny". Budicek o 6 rano a pridem domov o 10 sem tam o 12 vecer.
Prva praca je to co som robil doteraz v tom pokracujem, potom som prijal ponuku na spolupracu s TianRun New Energy co je investicna spolocnost, ktora chce investovat v regione CEE, co je stredna a vychodna Europa a do tretice po veceroch budem ucit manazerov z TianYuan anglictinu, kde si aspon pekne zarobim a mozem ist na vylet, ze kam?? do najdrahsieho mesta v Azii...kam??? HONG KONG predsaaaa kde predpokladane vydaje na 3-4 dni su aj s letenkou bude tak kol 1000 eur...to znamena, ze mam co robit:>

Prve kolo

2009-04-11T21:19:00.000-07:00

Mam za sebou, prve kolo miestneho rugby pohara.
Po tvrdom 2 a pol hodinovom treninku vo stvrtok nas v sobotu cakali miestny Devils.

Po super treninky a nacvicovani signalov, ktore bez chyb vychadzali sme bolo v ocakavaniach jednoznacne znicit Devils. Ale kruta pravda sa v sobotu naplno ukazala. Mnozstvo novych hracov v teame a nezohratost v utoku.

Prehrali sme 15 : 0 az sa mi to tazsko pisalo. Ale v podstate to je ako vo futbale 3:0 za kazdy "pokus = try" je 5.
Dufam, ze odveta uz bude bez pochyb v prospech AADVARKS

O aby som nezabudol, toto je moj vysledok a dalsie 4 po celom tele, nepocitam male modrinky :>

Shopping

2009-04-01T20:05:00.000-07:00

Dnes sa idem zahrat na wiki travel a zacnem postupne informovat o tom co robit, kam ist a preco vlastne ist do Pekingu.

Shopping

Kedze v Pekingu je okolo 17 milionov ludi, takze a nie vsetci su chudobni ako si myslite a vsetci mladi minaju vyplatu len na oblecenie, tak preto musi byt aj vela miest na nakupovanie.

Najlacnejsie:
Trh pri Pekingskej ZOO - Beijing ZOO market alebo Tianle Costumes Wholesale Market
alebo v cinstine : 天乐服饰批发市场（tiān lè fú shì pī fā shì chǎng）

Osobne som tam bol, po anglicky nikto nevie a zjednavat musite urcite. Nekupil som sice nic, ale lacne to je verte mi:> teda ak ste ochotni obetovat 10 RMB za lacoste alebo polo tricko.

Red Gate Costume Market - alebo Muxiyuan
Cinania to poznaju vacsinou pod nazvom Muxiyuan ale ak chcete oficialne 大红门服饰批发市场

No tu som stravil celu jednu sobotu, obrovske nakupne centrum, 5 poschodi a veeela malych obchodov. Myslim si ze to nestoji za to tam moc chodit. Cinsky styl, pomerne vysoke ceny, aj ked ja som si kupil koselu k saku za 40 RMB, ale kratke rukavy a siroka na bokoch.

Silk Market - Silk street alebo Xiu Shui. Moj oblubeny uz som tam utratil kopu penazi za este viac veci, no lacne, celkom v pohode veci a najdete tam vseeetky znacky co si len spomeniete.
Naposledy som kupil tenisky Paul Smith za 110 RMB a Paul Smith koselu za 40 a super kravatu za 20. Paul Smith
Silk Market je najlahsie naist, Zastavka s nazvom Yonganli na linke metra cislo 1, staci tam vystupit a ste tam. Kusok od Yonganli je Slovenska ambasada.
Tu najdete oblecenie, kabele LV, perly, typicke cinske oblecenie, elektroniku a v podstate vsetko. Dolezite je vediet zjednavat, vsetci predajcovia vedia po anglicky, ale treba vazne odporucam zistit skutocne ceny. Ako priklad prva cena na tenisky bolo 1700 myslim a vysledok je 110 a to som chcel za 80 ale nedalo sa.

Drahsie ulice su Xidan, Wangfujing a SOHO<Guomao a Dawanglu zastavky metra, line 1>

Ak niekto nahodou chce kupit Elektroniku tak odporucam
Zhongguancun E Plaza
中关村e世界（zhōng guān cūn yì shì jiè）
Je to nieco ako male cinske Silicon valley - v casti Pekingu s nazvom Haidian, staci nasadnut na metro a linkou 10 sup tam.
Ak sa niekomu nechce ist do Haidian-u tak potom mozno treba skusis Pearl Market, blizko Ciqikou myslim ze v sa to vola Hongqiao

A este ulica MalianDao, znama pre siroky vyber cajov - este som tam nebol, preto zatial viac pisat nebudem.

homesick?

2009-03-23T19:56:00.000-07:00

Konecne mam v praci par minut casu. Som sa pohladom vratil k mojim predchadzajucim prispevkom. A musim sa kazdemu citatelovi ospravedlnit za mnozstvo chyb, ktore sa tam nachadza. Na moju obranu prispevky sem vzdy len opajcnem z wordu, kde to pisem v autobuse alebo som pisal v lietadle a podobne.

Dnesnym prispevkom sa uz nejdem vracat spat k politike a kulture a podobne, bol som z domu cenzurovany.

Tento krat sa idem podelit o par fotiek z okolia mojho bytu. Trochu som pofotil cestu z mestra az k mojmu apartmanu.
Moje oblubene je nieco ako BBQ z ovce KaRou, je to z provincie Xinjiang a je to dost stiplave ale chutne a lacne...normalne ak mam nejake zvyzne drobne tak si par akolo 5 - 10 kuskov na cestu domov kupim. Su to male kusku masa opecene nad uhlikmi. V restauracii to je lepsie, super to je ak su tie kusky velke spolu s stiplavym opecenym chlebom a pivom, zarucena najlepsia kombinacia. Toto je ono -->

Toto presne neviem co to je, bolo mi povedane, ze to je tiez koreniste ale vela ludi si v tom vari aj tofu, co mne dost zapacha tak sa tomu vyhybam.
Na ceste domov mam vela trhov a stankov so susenym ovocim a ovocim, zeleninou. Takze nedostatkom ovocia a vitaminov netrpim. Skoro kazdy den si dam jeden ananas s jogurtom, musli a nutelou..wow som to tu skusil prvy krat a neviem sa zbavit tohto navyku.
Viac fotiek z okolia najdete tu.

V piatok som sa ucastnil jednej energetickej vystavy, malo to byt na cely den, ale okolo obeda nas vsetkych vystavovatelov vykazali, kvoli navsteve niekoho vysoko postaveneho z vlady. Tak sme si dali super obedik moj oblubeny Hot Pot kusok od vystaviska, co je blizko lokality s nazvom Xizhimen.

Icebreaker

2009-03-15T18:32:00.000-07:00

Vyzera to, ze som sa celkom zase rozbehol a idem sem supnut dalsi prispevok.

Mam za sebou velmi narocny mesiac skoro bez spanku co vyvrcholilo tento vikend.
Ale postupne..
V piatok som mal mensiu zurku na byte a potom sme vybehli na znamu Bar ulicu Sanlitun..domov som prisiel okolo 1 - 2 rano, a v sobotu som o 6 rano zase vstaval na turnaj... mozno som uz niekde informoval, mozno nie, ale hravam Rugby. Tento vikend som mal prvy start na turnaji Icebreaker.
Bohuzial som odohral, len jeden polcas ale proti Cinskemu narodnemu teame - old boys, teda nejaka specialne vyvinuta rasa cinskych rugbistov, vysoky, silny..asi na steroidoch. No jednoducho som k zemi polozil 2 metroveho obra, ale v moment ked sme sa spolu zrazili mi nieco ruplo v trieslach a od vtedy nemozem poriadne ani chodit, obe stehna mam tak napuchnute:>> ma to dost hneva..lebo potom som cely den presedel a pozeral ako sa ostatni spoluhraci mlatia.
Prvy zapas s cinksym timom sme prehrali 15:7 dalsi zapas sme dostali vyprask nejak 40:0 ale to bol dosledok neuveritelnej nezohratosti, sme mali zatial len 2 treninky. ale potom sme sa zobudili a posledny zapas proti japoncom vyhrali nejak 52: 12 tam som chcel hrat..skusal som strecinky a vymasirovat ale neslo mi sa ani zapret, dalsiu sobotu mame ligovy zapas, snad moje svalstvo uz bude posluchat, aj ked som si neni taky isty...

Icebraker vysiel a podla nazvu sa aj neuveritelne zmenilo pocasie od soboty tu mame 20 a vyzera to ze uz to tak ostane, dokonca som konecne chytil tmavu farbu:>
Po turnaju bola oficialna vecera, konecne v nemeckej restike..klobasy, pivo, maso...no som bol v raji...dlho som to nepotialhol lebo uz som nevladal ani pit...no sak za 2 dni som vypil asi 10 litrov piva, mam vacsiu spotrebu na sto km ako auto:>

praca update

2009-03-11T18:12:00.000-07:00

V praci sa to konecne pohlo niekam, ci to je k lepsiemu, alebo k horsiemu..cas ukaze.
nejake 2 tyzdne po Festivale jara som nemal do coho ani kopnut a len som bol na internete, alebo cital knizky. Tak raz k nam do Pekingu zavital CEO, a samozrejme ze sa musel s Marekom porozpravat, a Marek co? zacal rozpravat ako chce nieco robit, a mat vysledky prace a nieco dosiahnut. No a mame to tu. Pravdepodobne sa nasa Pekingska zakladna 2nasobne zvacsi a mozno sa sem presunie vsetko z Urumqi, kde mame Headquarters - centralu.
Po rozhovore s HR senior manazerom, mam za ulohu spolu s mojim manazerom vytvorit 2 nove oddelenia. Administrativne oddelenie na podporu celej zakladne a potom nieco ako Komunikacne oddelenie, lebo to doteraz nik nerobil,teda robil ale vysledky ziadne neboli. Dufam, ze nase navrhy pretlacime cez seniorov, aj ked to je tazske lebo oni su stale najmudrejsi, ale aspon mame podporu z HR a CEO, vazne dufam dufam, a mozno sa hned tiez pomodlim ze to prejde. Lebo chcel by som neskor predlzit kontrakt o dalsi rok, a to budem musiet podlozit vysledkami prace.

CCTV - alebo cinska statna televizia, ma asi 20 kanalov a na kazdom neuveritelna propaganda, no kto nevidel neuveri. Samozrejme ze ja pozeram iba sport a zahranicny kanal..citate dobre maju zahranicny kanal. Ale co tam davaju, tak na tom sa asi kazdy Expat smeje. Obsahom sprav je vsetko zle co sa deje v amerike a europe, a potom vsetko co je dobre vymyslene pre cinu a ako prezident a premier kde koho stretol..teda ze cina je velmi svetovo akceptovana. To ze niekto po VenTiaBaovi hodil na Britskej univerzite topanku nik nevedel, kym som sa o to nepodelil s kolegami.
Teraz tu je nejake stranicke zasadnutie..a par stranok a blogov o cine je dost ze zablokovanych..takze nik nepise a necita, ze ty stary dedkovia sa tam prisli len najest.
Naposledy ked som pozeral spravy, tak tam bol velice mudry cinanko...z vlady, navod ako riesit nezamestnanost v case tejto nasej krizy nasiel v zamestnani rural workers do domacnosti v mestach ako upratovcky, pestunky,.... co mu nedoslo, ze si to skoro nik nemoze dovolit, a ak by mohli tak uz aj tak precpate mesta robotnikmi z vidieku by boli precpate este viac...no neva hlavne ze on je mudry a je to riesenie krizy.

Inac vlada teraz musi riesit ako najde pracu pre 25 milionov studentov a krizou stratenych miest, ...na priklad uvediem ako tu pracuju ludia v tovarni, NIE V NASEJ.. som cital o IBM klavesniciach.. ziadna sanca ist na toaletu, ziadna sanca dat ruky dole zo stola a pohnut sa z miesta, plat je minimalna mzda..co je asi 800 rmb, tolko ja miniem za vecer ak je party...

neskor ak bude cas pokracujem, je toho tak vela co by sa dalo pisat, snad velky cinsky firewall, prepusti tuto spravu do sveta a ak prepusti tak dufam ze nebudem vyhosteny..snad mi tie viza zase predlzia.
Zbohom sudruhovia, Cest Vlasti...

skuul a tak

2009-03-10T19:34:00.000-07:00

Len par noviniek o tom co sa deje a co ma nemynie.
No takze, od pondelka nastupujem opat do skoly, 2 krat tyzdenne po 2 hodiny zatial na lekcie cinstiny, lebo ma hneva, ze niektorym ludom ani pekne vynadat neviem:>

Som clenom rugby teamu, treninky 2 krat tyzdenne, plny kontakt. Som nieco ako wing v utoku, co je podpora rozohravacov a co najrychlejsie bezat s loptou, co dokazem..ale potom vzdy narazim do nejakej steny co ma zvali na zem, stale dufam ze moja poistka to hradi:>>
Cez vikend je turnaj, hrame proti cinskemu narodnemu teamu..takze snad nabuduce nebudem pisat s dolamanymi prstami, ale to by som sa najprv musel dostat do zakladnej zostavy...v muzstve nas je cez 30 a len 15 hra.

V poslednej dobe som mal dost casto velmi vaznu vymenu cinskych slov v obchodikoch blizko mojho bytu. Si stale myslia ze ked som biely ze som aj bohaty. Tricko ktore kazdy cinan kupi za 10rmb mne chceli strelit za 180, Alebo vobec nikto neviem kde je slovensko, slovakia, tak uz moc nedbam na vysvetlovanie ze to EU, lebo to je este horsie..ked som z EU tak to zarucene som bohaty, Vacsina si mysli ze som zo Sri lanky..tak ich v tom nechavam.

Uz sa tu pomaly ale iste blizi jar a potom letoooo..v Nedelu sme mali 18 stupnov...konecne som sa poflakoval iba v tricku.. videl film Valkyre a potom vysvetloval historiu cinanom:>>

novinky zo sveta showbiznisu

2009-02-18T18:34:00.000-08:00

Dlhsie som sa na blogu neobjavil. Nenasiel som dost vnutornych sil na zdielanie vsetkych informacii okolo mna a ciny. Sak viete cenzura, musel som sa odmlcat aby som dastal viza.
Ale spat k realite, prekonal som zapal pluc, teda myslim vyrusovy alebo bakterialny zapal pluc, presne neviem, kedze moja cinstina este na urovni pokecu s doktorom o mojom zdravotnom stave. No dalsia cinska skusenost.. 4 dni v nemocnici na infuziach, a kedze videli ze som cudzinec, tak mi dali najdrahsie infuzie co mali, asi si mysleli ze si to mozem dovolit. Aby som nevyzeral ako choroba, tak musim doplnit ze vsetci moji kolegovia mali zapal pluc tiez, a aj zahranicny studenti a stazisti...to tu bola ako pandemia...

Je to tazske takto pisat co sa tu deje, ked uz som mnozstvo veci aj zabudol:> kedze som po 2 tazskych oslavach mojich 25 narodenin. Dal som si 2 darceky, prvy bol vylet do shanghaia a druhy ze som sa prestahoval do centra Pekingu a mam vlastny byt..huhu.

Pomaly uz zacinam ale planovat dovolnky a cestovanie na jar a leto. V plane mam Chengde - byvale sidlo cisara, je tam kopia Lhassa temple, XIAN - terra cotta, Chengdu - provincia Sichuan..uplna nadhera. Chcel som ist aj Harbin - ladove mesto, ale pfu ani nemam tolko zimneho oblecenia aby som tam prezil.
Mozno pojdem na 2 tyzdne sluzobne do provincie Xinjiang a mesta Urumqi..co je dost daleko z pekingu, teda je to na zapade pri hraniciach z ruskom.
Samozrejme ze rad by som sa dostal aj na ostrov Hainan,co je nieco ako cinsky Hawai a mozno ak bude cas a kese tak aj vnutorne Mongolsko..neviem ci som to dobre prelozil..ale je to Inner Mongolia.

Akurat som dostal dobry napad, kedze uz poznam vacsinu jedal v cinstine, tak pojdem sa preist cez vikend do okolia..pofotit vam co tu denne na ulici jedavam.
Mala lekcia cinstiny:
Dobry den - Ni hao - 你好 - preklad = ty dobre
Dakujem - XieXie< sšiesšie> - 谢谢
Moje cinske meno Ma Hai Yang - 马海阳 - znamena to Ma-horse Hai-more Yang-sun

a aby som nezabudol...podla nadpisu tohto clanku.. no v sobotu idem ucinkovat uz v druhom filme tu v cine, moja kariera sa vyvija inym smerom..haha..ak som nespomynal, tak uz som v jednom dokumente pre vladu - Dane- a druhy dokument je cisto o mne a zicote zahranicneho stazistu v cine...... je to pre studentov na Univerzite... takze po tomto filme nebudem mat sancu naist normalnu cinanku:>>

Sh Sh Shanghai Shangri-la

2009-01-29T22:34:00.000-08:00

1^st

Co sa udialo vletnom meste shanghai, pocas 3 dnov, no prvy den som prisiel do mesta okolo 1, ubytoval som sa v nasom celkom peknom hotely vyskusal velku postel a vrhol sa do browsovania Districtu Luwan, , aleb PUXI, hned vedla rieky Huangpu,.. alebo tiez stary Shanghai, Vdaka Jessie sme mali dobre lokalizovany hotel, takze som nemusel nikde zobrat taxik. V tejto lokalite najdete Yu garden alebo inac v cinstine YU YUAN,potom pearl market a kopu dalsich obchodov so suvenirmi, super cajovne a MC, Burger king a jasne ze aj KFC. Tato cast je je turisticka pasca, ak sa vydate o par krokokov dalej medzi stare osarpane budovy, tak najdete nefalsovany cinsky trh. Rozno druhy cerstvych ryb, cinskej pizze, ovocia, kolacov, kacky, kurcata, ale hydine som sa zdaleka vyhybal, kedze ty teraz zase riadi vsetko SARS, alebo chicken flu. Moja mala obchodzka pokracovala k rieke Huangpu, kedze celkom dost prsalo, a bolo zamracene, moj vyhlad na novy Pudong bol naprd, a ja som bol premoceny.

S hudbou na usiach a popevujuc si do kroku na ulici, nedbajuci na to ze ma vsetci pocuju som si neuvedomoval kolko je hodin. Moja mala prechadzka trvala asi 4 hodiny a to som skoro nic ani nefotil. Moja mania na fotenie ma postihla az dalsi den. Unaveny som sa pomaly dotackal do hotela, zalahol na 30 minut a cakal kym dorazi kamaratka z Toronta.

Trochu som si oddychol a o nedlho uz niekto klopal na dvere mojej izby, Konecne som sa potesil ze ideme zurovat v Shanghaii. Vyrazili sme do najdrahsej stvte v Shanghiai, no neviem ci najdrahsej, ale fuu mozem povedat ze som tam mierne za veceru prekrocil, moj celodenny rozpocet:>..

Citil som sa tam ale ako v Europe, pomaly ziadny cinania, samy europania a zahranicni businessmen..a k tomu aj prisposobene ceny. Ale za ten pocit to stalo.

Po par hodinach na v Shanghaii som si na plno uvedomil rozdiel medzi Pekingom a Shanghaiom. Peking je typicke velke cinske mesto, kde ledva niekto na mna prehovori po anglicky, naist zahranicnu restauraciu je zazrak. Naopak, shanghai je zahranicne mesto len je preplnene cinanmi. Pomaly kazdy vie po anglicky takze po cinsky sat u nema zmysel ani ucit. Klima je ovela prijemnejsia a vlhkost osviezujuca, konecne som videl zelen v cine. Co v pekingu som nevidel ani naznak zelene, v Shanghai mate zelene parky na kazdom rohu. Pocasie mi dokonca umoznilo obedovat na terase…

FOTKY PRVY DEN

2^nd

Pomaly som sa prehupol do druheho dna. Alebo inac ho mozem nazvat turisticka dovolenka s relaxom v jednom. Neviem kedy som sa tak vela nachodil v jeden den, a zaroven aj tak donre zabavil a oddychol.

Cely den som nebol sam, takze vsetko som pobehal s kamaratko, Jessie alebo jeje cinske meno qianqian:> . takze z hotela sme sa vydali pozret stary shanghai smerujuc k rieke pozret BUND. Bund je nieco ako byvali pristav, budovy byvalich anglickych, francuzkych a inych indicko cinskych pobociek. Vsetko je v anglickom imperialistickom style. Teraz sa tam nachadzaju najluxusnejsie znacky z celeho sveta a galerie. Kedze som biely a to je privelegium robit si co chem. Tak sme pobehali vsetko bez toho aby nas niekdo niekde zastavoval, Dostali sme sa aj na miesta kde je zakazany vstup a porobili par fotiek. Predchadzajuci den stale prsolo a aj v druhy den to vyzeralo marne, ale konecne aspon v niecom sa na mna usmialo stastie. Vyslo slnko, bolo teplo a super vyhlad. Par hodin sme stravili na mole a len tak fotili. Okolo obeda sme chceli ist na druhu stranu rieky. Na vysvetlenie. Stara cast je na jednej strane rieky a nova na druhej. Ja som byval v starej. V novej casti je kopa mrakodrapov a mrakodrapova a drahych restauracii. Ako sme zistili su tri moznosti ako preist rieku na tomot mieste. Jedna za 40 kuai, je ist tunelom pod riekou, Druha je od 70 do 170 kuai a to je vyletna lod s prehliadkou. Druha je za 2kuai a to je trajekt. My sme si vybrali kombinaciu trajektu a listku do vyhliadky v druhej navyssej budove. Za 70 kuai. Trajektom to trvalo asi 5 min na druhu stranu. Po “vylodeni” som bol celkom uneseny s vyhladu co sa mi naskytol. No wow… Cumela na mna budova s vyskoy 450 alebo 500 m…a vedla nej nasa vyhliadkova budova JinTao tower,..v ktorej sa nachada hotel Hyatt. Chceli sme porobit par fotiek pod tymi vezami..ale moc to neslo..sa to ani nezmestilo … . O tomto nema zmysel ani pisat, pozrite si vysledok mojho fotenia a vsetko pochopite. Kedze som teraz na letisku a zachvilku mam boarding, budem koncit.. Dufam ze sa do Shanghaia dostanem aj v lete a aspon na tyzden. Aj ked rovno mozem povedat ze si to nebudem moct asi dovolit. Za 3 dni som tu minul polovicu vyplaty.haha…a to nepocitam hotel… Stalo to za to.. a ak poznate ze What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas, tak pre Shanghai plati to iste… party business mesto plne turistov. To ze v prieskume bol Shanghai 5 najdrahsim mestom na svete, mozem len potvrdit.

FOTKY DRUHY DEN

DEN TRETI

PICS

2009-01-11T03:01:00.000-08:00

No nemam moc casu v poslednej dobe, tak nejdem ani moc pisat.
Novinky..akurat ze si hladam byt v centre Pekingu a 21 januara idem do Shanghaia a potom ma caka Cinsky novy rok.
Par fotiek co som pofotil v poslednom obdobi..
OH
Wanfujing-GuoMao

My work and wind power

2008-12-22T00:36:00.000-08:00

Wind industry
Climate change is now generally accepted to be the greatest environmental threat facing the world, and keeping our planet’s temperature at sustainable levels has become one of the major concerns of policy makers. The UN’s Intergovernmental
Panel on Climate Change projects that average temperatures around the world will increase by up to 5.8°C over the coming century. This is predicted to result in a wide range of climate shifts, including melting ice caps, flooding of low-lying land, storms, droughts and violent changes in weather patterns.

Wind power does not emit any climate change inducing carbon dioxide nor other air pollutants which are polluting the major cities of the world and costing billions in additional health costs and infrastructure damage. Within three to six months of operation, a wind turbine has offset all emissions caused by its construction, to run virtually carbon free for the remainder of its 20 year life.

The vast majority of commercial turbines now operate on a horizontal axis with three evenly spaced blades. These are attached to a rotor from which power is transferred through a gearbox to a generator. The gearbox and generator are contained within a housing called a nacelle. Some turbine designs avoid a gearbox by using direct drive. The electricity is then transmitted
down the tower to a transformer and eventually into the grid network.
Wind turbines can operate across a wide range of wind speeds - from 3-4 meters per second up to about 25 m/s, which translates into 90 km/h.

The leading turbine manufacturers are based in Denmark, Germany, Spain, the United States, India and China.

China added 3,304 MW of wind capacity during 2007, a market growth of 145% over 2006, and now ranks fifth in total installed capacity - with 5,906 MW at the end of last year.

Satisfying rocketing electricity demand and reducing air pollution are the main driving forces behind the development of wind energy in China.The Chinese government believes that the localisation of wind turbine manufacture brings benefits to the local economy and helps keep costs down.
Total domestic manufacturing capacity is now about 8,000 MW, and expected to reach about 12 GW by 2010. Established major Chinese manufacturers include Goldwind, Sinovel, Dongfang, Windey and Sewind

I work for the biggest producer and market leader Goldwind
Goldwind’s high speed of growth is dependent on the country’s policy support, understanding and help from the society at large, an open corporate culture and people-oriented mechanism of the Company itself. Goldwind has enjoyed annual market share growth of over 100% for eight years consecutively. In 2007, Goldwind reported a share of 25.25% on China’s wind power market, maintaining its No.1 market share on the domestic market.

Wangfujing

2008-12-17T19:26:00.000-08:00

Opat sa hlasim z mraveniska Beijing.
Musim priznat, ze tento vikend sa toho udialo trochu viac ako som planoval, ale nie vsetko sa da tu takto verejne zdielat:>

Tak pekne po poriadku...
V piatok vecer som usporiadal rozluckovu party pre dvoch cinskych studentov, ktorim skoncila prax v nasej spolocnosti. Nikdy pred tym neboli na home party... mam tu par vyhod tak som to hnev vyuzil v ich aj moj prospech. Dostal som peniaze na tu moju party zo spolocnosti:>
Tak som kupil super pizze, paaar parov piv, Doritos..ale salsu som nanasiel tak sme mali chili ketchup ale aj tak to vsetci pojedli, kupil som kopu kolacov, whiskey, SLIVOVICU sme vypili...a nakoniec boli vsetci opiti a ja ja som isiel nad ranom spat...
par fotiek z party je TU

Na sobotu som mal dohodnute stretnutie s jednou cinskou znamou, lenze co sa nestalo..cakal som na nu asi pol hodku a cely cas jej vyvolaval..ale ja tulpas som mal na nu zle cislo..tak som sa stale dovolal nejakemu cinanovi...tak som sa pobral na moju LC univerzitu po peniazky, kde som stretol stazistku zo svajciarska.....
Dohodli sme sa na vecer, nasli super lacny a utulny hostel par metrov od hlavnej ulice - wangfujing ..pobehali to tam..ja som vyskusal nejake tie jedla cinske..aj ked vsade mali morske prisery..chobotnice, slimaky, nejake chrobaky, hady, a vela veci som ani nerozoznal....
trochu som zase pofotil aby som sa mohol podelit o zazitky aj s vami tak tu je link na fotky - Wangfujing

Kedze sme nechceli po pracovnom tyzdni ostat len tak vecer na hotely pobrali sme sa na party na staru znamu ulicu Sanlitun - tam sme stretli jej kolegov a popijali a tancovali do rannych hodin..
ja som sa sa este v naladicke pozoznamoval s dalsimi zahranicnymi studenami a pokracoval v party zivote v najlepsom klube na svete:> Vics ..jo moc nepamatam..ale o lepsiom som ani nepocul.... na hostel som sa uplne zniceny vratil na obed okolo 12...takze 2 a pol dna som nespal...
zobral som si svoje saky paky a pobral cestovat domov... kedze som mal oci zalepene unavou..pomylil som si 2 cinske znaky a omylom namiesto rychleho spoju 976 som nastupil do 976 to najpomalsie co tam je... rychlym mi cesta domov trva 40 min a tymto pomalym 2 hod a 20 min... takze cestu som prespal a pamatam si len ako som si buchal hlavu o okno:>>

Tento tyzden som dost zaneprazdneny praca, cinstina a potom som v meste..ano ano..cestujem do mesta podnikovym autobusom a domov v noci idem taxikom.... v meste je trocha lepsie a nie som tam sam teraz ..ucim s trochu po spanielsky..vysvetlovat nebudem:>> tak uvidim ako to moj rozpocet stazistu vydrzi... asi idem zalozit nadaciu na podporu stazistov v pekingu:> Ak kazdy posle dolar..euro.. moze byt lepsie... mami, tati??:>>>>ale nie dost srandiciek..

Vianoce ani Silvester sa tu neslavi ale ja ako zahranicny zamestnanec mam volno 24 aj 25 decembra.. ale neviem co budem robit...mozno pojdem len tak na veceru do europskej restiky pozrem nejake rozpravky a filmy...
ale hlavne v tejto zime az do 11 januara neplanujem ziadne party ani nic take...idem sprtit cinstinu...

Bol som pozvany na dovolenku na Hainan ostrov..co je nieco ako Hawai pre cinanov...ale stoji to majland...stale nad tym rozmyslam rozmyslam...a moc ma to hneva....tyzdnova dovolenka stoji moj 10 mesacny plat:>>> tak asi ostanem tu cez cinsky novy rok...alebo mozno nie...ja nevieeem.mam nemam???

Cisto slovensky update

2008-12-10T18:33:00.000-08:00

Ahojte všetci čitatelia a náhodní návštevnici.
Dlhsiu dobu som nic nenapisal. Ma to dva hlavne dovody, bol som trochi viac pracovne vytazeny a unaveny z internetu. Ale som spat a surfujem o sto sest.

Tento tyzden som oslavil prvy mesiac pobytu v Pekingu, ale to ubehlo, rychlejsie ako som si myslel.
Mozno pisem teraz nieco ako mesacne zhodnotenie.
Tak pekne sa usadte a pozorne citajte.

Vonku mame pekne slnecno minus 5 stupnov C. Neradno tam vobec niekoho vyhnat. Dnes som sa uz po druhy krat vyhol rannej rozcvicke... Ako neviem si sam seba predstavit v -10 stupnoch 20 minut cvicit a potom si ist zabehnut kolecko okolo futbaloveho ihriska...no saleny nie som:>>

Ako kazdemu pisem do mailov, je to tu super. Super rozdielne.. jedina zhoda medzi Pekingom a slovenskou vlastou som Ja.

Mensie zhrnutie.. konecne viem poriadne cestovat po meste autobusmi aj metrom, autobus je na prd..trva to moc dlho a musim, v roku 2010 alebo 2012 tu ma byt metro, kusok od nas...ale to tu ja uz nebudem..skoda..bolo by to ovela lepsie...

Mesto je vazne nadherne a preplnene ludmi, ale na druhej strane je to kludne a usporiadane, ziadny stres.... niekedy musim pockat az na tretie metro aby som sa dostal do vlaku tak plne to je.
Vianoce ani Silvester tu oslavovat nebudem, aj ked som bol pozvany na party, ale budem v praci...kto je teda workoholik???
Ale mame tu Jarny Festival, je to 26 Jan, tyzden volna a ohnostrojov...este neviem kde budem, lebo mesto sa v tedy vyludnuje..mozno tu nik nebude..a to nie je vtip.. kolegovia idu vsetci prec a mi povedali ze si mam spravit zasoby potravin, lebo vela ludi ide prec z Pekingu...a mozno obchody budu zavrete.

V piatok je vyplata....uz sa tesim... pojdem si nakupit par vianocnych darcekov na SILK MARKET... je to trh kde maju vsetky znacky a tovar, ale FAKE..teda falzifikat. ale je to presna kopia. Idem tam buduci tyzden par dni pre vianocami tak pofotim a budem informovat...

Ako vyzera moj pracovny den a hodiny potom??
mmm
v praci som do 17 30, potom ma hodinky cinstiny..posilka, bedminton, cinstina, serial a spat...

AAA co som tu nasiel.. je to cinske youtube ale stokrat lepsie, vysvetlim.. na youtube vsetko podlieha nejakym zakonom o diele, video moze mat max 10 minut.. no myslim ze youtube je oproti http://www.youku.com/ mala sestricka v plienkach a je to len imidzovy boom...
na youku ..mate vsetky serialy , nemusite hladat cast1, cast2, su tam pravdepodobne vsetky filmy v celej dlzke a dobrej kvalite.. som pozeral minule Top GUN, a dokonca som nasiel aj 3 hodinovy film..takze ak ste na cestach a nemate so sebou filmy..odporucam.

Great wall

2008-11-30T03:24:00.000-08:00

My Great wall trip started friday, right after the work. I packed myself, took a company's bus and left to the PKU - Peking University= the best Uni in China- where I met my newly made friend from Japan Yuhiro and his classmates and professors from Doshisha University, Kyoto. He invited me to join them on this trip, so I stayed in his hotel room for whole weekend.

We got up early morning and left the hotel at 8 am. It took us 1 and half our with private bus. The cost for whole day and lunch was 240 RMB.. ..comparing to bus no.919 that is coming there and back for 30 or 40 and drive for more then 2 hours.
So our trip headed to Badaling about 70 km northwest of Beijing

History:

The site of the Badaling section of the wall has been a strategic location since the Spring and Autumn Period (770 - 476 B.C.) when the first walls were built. Badaling is the highest section of the Jundu mountain and historically protected the Juyongguan Pass. This portion of the wall was reconstructed during Ming times and was renovated in modern times as well. It was the first section to open for tourism in 1957.

Features:

Elevation: 1,000 meters
3,741 meters long with and average height of 8 meters
Top wide enough for 5 horses to be ridden together
Constructed of large stones weighing one hundred kilograms

We took cable car to the top of the hill for 60 rmb. It wa s worth it, because you can't imagine the cold, freezing winter over there. I was happy as a kid, that we had tickets for cable car.

Finally..we were on the top of the hill and top of the Great Wall..and I was impressed by the GREAT :> view and mightiness of the wall. It is never ending, the english translation for chinese name of the wall is the long wall, or there is another name for it in pinyin it is Wànlĭ Chángchéng, it means The long wall of 10 000, and 10 thousand in chinese means something like infinity, endless...
We took some pics..chinese took some pics of me... I felt like a star again.. My most common word there was no or bu ... no pictures ...i mean with me...
The wall its so heavy and build in great heights, I wan t to see how they could build it thousand years ago... its hard to explain...but i think just one view from the top, the view where you can see whole plains and mountains and the wall across the mountains as a road across the jungle... i think i will go for another trip to forbidden wall ..without tourists.. its kind of dangerous, but i have a guide...so hope i can write about it later, with all my hands and feet...
continue later...

check out some pics -----par fotiek -GREAT WALL

Xidan, Sanlitun

2008-11-23T05:22:00.000-08:00

yo, another weekend is behind me, this time I have headache ..yes, we can call it hang over...it was niiice end of the second week.

So briefly .. I spent amount in Xidan, Xidan is so famous street full of shops of the best brands from all over the world... I saw Beijing's spoiled kids shoppin... and I was there too..most of the clothes and stuff is not affordable ..like for me...and 99 percent of other young in the city..it was first and last time for me in Xidan..though..i dont see another reason to come back again..maybe to find a rich chinese girl:>

then I went for a beer or two ..to so loong street full of hutong, small houses..in each house we can find a bar or coffee or tea.. i had 2 beers and special drink with vodka and milk:> tasted good ..but wasnt enough..this street fit more to me, than the street called Sanlitun, where we can meet every foreigner in the city..its just a street full of bars, clubs...and drunk people....we were there like a group of 10 foreigners and my colleague. My colleague has a company's apartment in the downtown so I slept there, because I live and work in the Economic and Development area on the south of Beijing..so its better for me to stay there..i took some pictures from the apartment and also in Xidan and Sanlitun, I hate to take camera all the time with me...but its for you....i always look like a tourist.....

STILL ALIVE AND STILL PROUD SLOVAK:> but Beijing is great

PICS

2008-11-15T06:08:00.000-08:00

Par fotiek z mojho prveho vyletu do centra.
Oblast Goumao, Xizhimen - tam sme boli na obed, v restauracii typu Hot Pot..teda ze si to sam mozem varit pred sebou v kastroliku a nakoniec, jazero Muamai..su tam same restauracie a bary...najblizsie tam idem na pivo:>

You can see a few pics from my first trip to the city center.
I was in the area of Goumao, Xizhimen- I tried a Hot Pot restaurant, it means, that I can boil, cook, my own food on the table as you can see, at the end we went to Muamai lake, lots of bars and restaurants were there..next week I'm gonna for a beer there.

WORK UPDATE

2008-11-09T23:08:00.000-08:00

WHoaa, I couldn't believe ..and I still can't believe. I was on a meeting with my Vice President and investment managers from the Nomura group. The Nomura group that has taken over Lehman Brothers in Europe and Asia. I can't write here what was it all about...but It was worth to go to CHINA....
Can say The first day was really interesting ..haha

My work place - Nieco ako maja kancelaria:>

Este teraz nemozem uverit. Prave som sa vratil z obchodneho rokovania medzi nasim Vice prezidentom a Investormi z Nomury. a to som tu prvy den...celkom zaujimave na prvy den v praci, co?

Konecne Cina - China finally

2008-11-09T19:30:00.000-08:00

ENGLISH TRANSLATION IS UNDER THE SLOVAK TEXT

Som tu zase a teraz sa uz hlasim z maleho mestecka Peking. Pravda je taka, ze to je mestecko velke, vacsie ako jedna tretina Slovenska.

Byvam kusok dalej od centra mesta, je to tak hodina cesty. Skoda, lebo v meste by to bolo urcite lepsie. Som v casti, ktora sa vola Yizhung Economical and Development zone. Su tu same zahranicne spolocnosti, a hotely… nakupne centra su este vo vystavbe.

V Sobotu som bol v Centre a je to BRUTAL nadhera...len som bol tak unaveny ze som ani nevladal vnimat.

Robim na prvom poschodi a byvam na tretom poschodi. Co je super, lebo sa nemusim trepat autobusom. Vsetko je po cinsky, tak je mozne, ze by som este do prace ani netrafil.

V budove mam posilku, basketbalove ihrisko, ihrisko pre badminton a vonku je tartanova draha a futbalove ihrisko..takze co ine dodat.

Je to tu dost vtipne..lebo vsetci sa tvaria, ze vedia po anglicky…mmm no pravda je ze nevedia…

Ranajky, obed aj veceru mam tu v spolocnosti cely tyzden. Cez vikend si musim vybehnut sam do restiky alebo nieco kupit. Co je aj super, teda bude..ak najdem nieco Europske, kde mozem pouzit noz a vydlicku. Lebo vsade, vazne vsade sa tu je len s palickami..co ja este neviem..tak som tu kazdemu na obede na posmech:> aj sam sebe…

Dnes som bol prvy den v praci. Pekne o 8 00 som si dal ranajky… cinske.. vajicko na tvrdo, kapusta a pecene cesto a maso zapecene v ceste:> a zapil som to stavou zo syra:> nerobim si srandu. Ale nic ine nebolo:>>>

O 8 20 bola rozvicka…CELO PODNIKOVA…ano ano, spartakiada…. 5 minut sa cvicilo a potom na koniec asi 500 metrov sa behalo…aj manazeri a sefovia..v oblekoch… bol tam niekto kto na to cele dozeral… si myslim, ze takto si vsetci udrzuju kondiciu pre pripad vojny so spojenymi statmi:>

Na izbe mam internet..tak sa budem casto hlasit.

Prave som dojedol cinsku sladkost…jujube… nieco ako susene hrozno a figy dokopy:>

Dakujem za citanie ..alebo ako by som tu povedal Dakujem XIE XIE NI

Test Blogu

2008-11-04T13:49:00.001-08:00

Vitam kazdeho na tomto mojom blogu.
Nepovazujem sa za velkeho spisovatela ani blogera, ale som lenivy a toto je jednoduchy sposob ako si kazdy moze pozriet a zistit, kde som, co robim a co fotim.

Ak niekomu prekaza to, ze pisem bez interpunkcie, alebo diakritiky??mmm...tak sorry.

Datum 7.11.2008 -- tak to som naposledy na Slovensku.
Najblizsie sa hlasim uz z Pekingu, kde budem dufam, ze jeden dlhy a stastny rok.

FOR THOSE ENGLISH SPEAKING GUYS
I hope, there will be an english version of all my posts too. Not available now:>